Gabe Newell PC Gaming Fear

>Gabe is 61 >Likely to die before he hits 75 >The second he dies, a power vacuum appears not just within Valve/Steam, but all of PC gaming >Assume worst case scenario >New Valve CEO takes on the normal "Profit first" motivations >Either sells to microsoft or makes Steam worse in some way >First thing to go would be Proton >Then the settings that allow you to login to the Library page instead of the store >Then the ability to turn off the second window of ads that pop up each time you open Steam. >Suddenly you HAVE to use Windows to play PC games >Steam sells slowly get worse over the course of a year until they're just not worth it anymore >Steam starts changing the way they make profit from their store in ways that harm Indie devs. This is an actual fear I have. Can someone tell me if I'm being a dumbass, or is PC gaming really being held up by one old fat guy?

Пост выражает тревогу о будущем PC-гейминга после смерти Гейба Ньюэлла: автор предполагает, что новый руководитель Valve может продать компанию Microsoft, убрать Proton, усилить рекламу и сделать Steam хуже. Шутка строится на гиперболе, будто вся экосистема компьютерных игр держится на одном пожилом человеке. EN: The post expresses anxiety about the future of PC gaming after Gabe Newell's death: the author imagines that a new Valve leader might sell the company to Microsoft, remove Proton, increase advertising, and make Steam worse. The joke relies on hyperbole, as if the entire PC gaming ecosystem were held together by one old man.

• @eternalclassic / 52766 2024-06-18